🇦🇹Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ： 12 Variations on ‘Ah! vous dirai-je maman’ K.265

Built on the familiar melody of the French song “Ah! vous dirai-je maman,” this work draws a wide range of expression from it through 12 variations. While preserving the outline of the theme, Mozart successively transforms the music through ornamental figures, intricate rhythms, broken chords, and changing registers and treatment of the voices. Each variation is concise and clear, with highlights including light, agile movement, singing passages, exchanges between the hands, and conversational writing. In performance, it is important to present the theme naturally and distinguish the character and sense of tempo of each variation. In rapid passages, attention to the flow of the beat and the direction of the melody, together with clear inner voices and restrained ornaments and dynamics, brings out the music’s clarity and flexible expression.